A Sunny Place for Shady People

Resumen del libro

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural.

A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.

Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez's stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez's unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her ?the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time.?

Biografía del autor

MARIANA ENRIQUEZ es periodista, subeditora del suplemento Radar del diario Página/12 y docente. Ha publicado las novelas Bajar es lo peor y Nuestra parte de noche además de las colecciones de cuentos Los peligros de fumar en la cama, Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego y Un lugar soleado para gente sombría; el perfil La hermana menor, sobre Silvina Ocampo y los libros de crónicas de Alguien camina sobre tu tumba y El otro lado. Retratos, fetichismos, confesiones.